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Camera Ottomana - Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914 (Paperback)
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Camera Ottomana - Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914 (Paperback)
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From its birth in 1839, photography has participated in modernity
as much as it has symbolized it. Its capacity to record and display
and its claim to accuracy and truth intricately linked the new
technology to the dynamism of the modern world. The Ottoman Empire
embraced photography with great enthusiasm. In fact, the impact and
meaning of photography were compounded with the thrust of
modernization and westernization of the Tanzimat movement. By the
turn of the century, photography in the Ottoman lands had become a
standard feature of everyday life, of public media, and of the
state apparatus. This volume explores some of the most striking
aspects of the close connection between photography and modernity
with a particular focus on the Ottoman Empire. Much of the material
concerns the display of modernity through photography, as was so
often the case in the photographs and albums commissioned by the
Sultan to showcase his empire for Western audiences. Nevertheless,
modernity was often embedded in the photographic act, transforming
it into a common and mundane practice. Be it in the form of images
disseminated through the illustrated press, postcards sent out to
family members or anonymous collectors, portraits presented to
friends and acquaintances, or pictures taken of employees and
convicts, photography had started to invade practically every
sphere of public and private life. The visual world we live in
today was born some 150 years ago. Camera Ottomana is both a homage
to, and a critical assessment of, the local dimension of one of the
most potent and transformative technological inventions of the
recent past.
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